THANKS to everyone who came out Tuesday to see the film "Documented" at the Lewiston Public Library! Thanks to Mana Abdi and Yunkyo Moon Kim, who did a fantastic job leading a discussion on a complicated subject (immigration) in the short time we had. Your insight and eloquence is so appreciated! So happy to feel supported here in Maine. 🙂 www.youthjournalism.org/documented-reveals-journalists-immigration-story/...

Today marks our 25th anniversary.Back on January 11, 1994, a single teenage boy showed up with his mother for the first-ever meeting of what became Youth Journalism International.He came to the Connecticut newspaper office of The Bristol Press in response to a notice in the paper announcing the formation of a journalism education group for young people.The paper’s former editor, Frank Keegan, believed strongly in the concept, but wasn’t quite as keen on actually working with teenagers. So he asked reporter Jackie Majerus-Collins if she had any interest in taking the lead on it.Majerus, now Youth Journalism International’s executive director, agreed and also enlisted her husband, Steve Majerus-Collins.So that first night Keegan, Majerus and Collins welcomed the sole student to show up, Geremy Wallace, from neighboring Terryville, Conn.They talked for about journalism for a while and decided to try again to round up more teens for the next meeting, which ultimately took place a month later.Wallace, who graduated from Terryville High School in 1996, returned for the next session, which had better attendance, and ultimately helped out with a stellar project students did later that year about teen pregnancy.Geremy also took YJI's first photograph, published in our first printed issue in April 1994. Here it is: ...

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